(CNN) -- Sirens went off in the small plane he was a passenger on, and Ferdinand Puentes and eight others aboard "knew what was going on."

The aircraft was going down, and Puentes grabbed his GoPro camera and recorded the ordeal.

The result: arresting pictures of inside the plane and beneathocean watersas the group awaited rescue off Kalaupapa on Hawaii's Molokai island.

One person, Loretta Fuddy, died in the December 11 crash. Fuddy, director of Hawaii's Department of Health, was the official who confirmed the authenticity of President Barack Obama's birth record in Hawaii.

Of the others on board, one person swam ashore, a Maui Fire Department helicopter picked up four, and a Coast Guard helicopter rescued three.

A month after the crash, the photographs continue to evoke strong emotions in Puentes.